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Antonio Conte fumes at Cesc Fàbregas over red card

Matt Hughes, Deputy Football Correspondent | Alyson Rudd

August 14 2017, 12:01am, The Times

Conte is short of options for next weekend’s trip to Wembley to face SpursJOHN WALTON/PA

Antonio Conte is furious with Cesc Fàbregas for the indiscipline that effectively sealed Chelsea’s defeat by Burnley and has left him with a selection crisis before next weekend’s London derby against Tottenham Hotspur. The Spain midfielder was the second Chelsea player to be sent off against Burnley. He was shown a second yellow card for lunging at Jack Cork after an earlier booking for sarcastically applauding a decision by Craig Pawson, the referee.

Conte is understood to have warned his players to keep their discipline at half-time at Stamford Bridge, when they were 3-0 behind and already down to ten men after Gary Cahill’s dismissal for a reckless challenge on Steven Defour, so the Italian has taken a dim view of what he regarded as…